Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:24 am
I'd like to see them fire up the engine and do some taxi runs.
Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:30 am
Man,I just missed it. I was there a couple of weeks ago. She looks great.
Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:30 am
She is over in the A and D hangar now. They did a great job on her.
needs to be raced at RENO....
Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:41 am
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Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:54 am
From that angle it doesn't look so fugly!
Zack
Zack
Thu Jun 25, 2009 9:58 am
Don't know if I'd go as far as saying she looks nice! Good job in restoration, but a bit of a Frankenstein look! Leave it to GM to design and build something the people don't want or need! 
Sounds like she had some seriously dangerous flying characteristics. But I guess we'll never know if those could have been ironed out. Looked to have had a good theoretical range, rate of climb and speed, but by the time she was test flying, we had enough types of good AC in the pipeline.
Sounds like she had some seriously dangerous flying characteristics. But I guess we'll never know if those could have been ironed out. Looked to have had a good theoretical range, rate of climb and speed, but by the time she was test flying, we had enough types of good AC in the pipeline.
Thu Jun 25, 2009 12:27 pm
I have been waiting for this day for a while.
There is rare...and then there is rare.
Every so often, people have an idea that doesn't turn out wuite the eay they expected. Interesting none-the-less.
Thanks for posting.
There is rare...and then there is rare.
Every so often, people have an idea that doesn't turn out wuite the eay they expected. Interesting none-the-less.
Thanks for posting.
Thu Jun 25, 2009 12:31 pm
To quote "AHHNOLD" from Predator, "You are one ugly.........."
Mudge the critic
Mudge the critic
Thu Jun 25, 2009 12:38 pm
For more pics of it..........
Call up the picture, replace the last 5 with 1, 2, 3, or 4
Cockpit shot too
Mark H
Call up the picture, replace the last 5 with 1, 2, 3, or 4
Cockpit shot too
Mark H
Thu Jun 25, 2009 1:27 pm
Well, I think she is kinda pretty, maybe some paint and some invasion stripes, no, even better, Sharks Teeth!
All kidding aside, I am just glad it did not get turned into an aluminum ingot!
All kidding aside, I am just glad it did not get turned into an aluminum ingot!
Thu Jun 25, 2009 1:33 pm
Flyer?
Thu Jun 25, 2009 1:47 pm
It is static at the NMUSAF. The sole remaining example.
Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:04 pm
Read it was in really bad shape, structural corrosion. 10 years to rebuild. Who was storing it?
Thu Jun 25, 2009 2:07 pm
I can say I recall it being as NMUSAF on my first trip there which must have been in about 1978 or so.
Mark H
Mark H
Thu Jun 25, 2009 3:52 pm
I remember it sitting outside over at the NMUSAF Annex back in the late '70s. It lingered in the Annex hangars in rough shape for years until being pulled off display in the 90s for restoration. An interesting footnote in aviation history (and a lesson in how NOT to design and airplane.) I'm glad it was preserved..but I would have rather they'd saved an XB-35/49 Flying Wing instead.
SN
SN
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